“Undoubtedly the science is changing. Anyone who plots a learning curve – and we have all been plotting these things for years – would be able to tell you that whatever we think was fairly good before becomes bad now. The situation gets worse and worse …
“We have not learned from this. All the time we underestimate the scale of the problem. … We have no learning curves there at all. We get burned every time, and we put our hand back in the fire again. And we will no doubt do it again.”
– Kevin Anderson, Director of the UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, speaking before the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee, 23 June 2009.
